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kara
@ainulindale.bsky.social
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Bike commuter, orogenesis enthusiast, cartographer turned security engineer, former Mapbox Workers Union organizer. they/them 🇵🇸
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mecha-tho.bsky.social
Four Murasame from Zeta Gundam saying "I'll always love you, but I become a different person when I pilot the bicycle." A bicycle is visible behind her.
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
That’s right AI is ushering in the wonderful age of human utopia: working 72 hours a week for a pervert
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Oct 20
The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.

As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week
Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
ainulindale.bsky.social
At least I’ll always have spite for the Supreme Court to keep me going.
October 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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techworkerscoalition.org
We are officially one month away from Circuit Breakers Conf! Repost please!

🗽 New York City, Oct. 18-19th 2025

✊ Conference will feature workers from the wider tech labor movement

🎟️ Grab your limited tickets now: techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers
One month until Circuit Breakers! Oct 18-19, New York City learn more and register: https://bit.lycircuitbreakers2025
September 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ainulindale.bsky.social
Oh hell yeah.
September 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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techworkerscoalition.org
NEWS ALERT: Early bird tickets now available for Circuit Breakers, our annual US tech labor conference! Repost please!

🗽 New York City, Oct. 18-19th

✊ Conference will feature workers from the wider tech labor movement

🎟️ Snag your early bird tickets here: techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers
Circuit Breakers Early Bird Registration A national conference for all workers, organizers, and activists in the tech industry to come together and learn, build communitx, strategize, and recognize our collective power. bit.ly/circuitbreakers2025
September 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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derekmballard.bsky.social
the problem.
August 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ainulindale.bsky.social
Snapshots from my deep and abiding intolerance for helicopter surveillance in DC.
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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kickstarterunited.org
It’s time for a fair contract. Our union is fighting to protect what makes @kickstarter.com special, and we need your support. Sign onto our petition to show your solidarity: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ks...
An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek
Dear Kickstarter Creators & Allies, We’re writing to you as Kickstarter United—the union of designers, support specialists, product managers, engineers, and more who power this platform and are h...
actionnetwork.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...
“We must remember that, no matter what happens, the fascists are the enemy, and that only fascists are responsible for their violence. Whether crime is up, or a protester threw something, or someone entered the U.S. illegally—our enemies don’t care if any of these things are true when they pursue their violence, and we must be equally uncompromising about whether any human being should have their fate decided by a fascist, authoritarian government.” - Kelly Hayes
August 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
ainulindale.bsky.social
Another day of testing my capacity for cognitive dissonance in exchange for money and health insurance.
July 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
When people see folks drowning and feel powerless and ill-equipped to save them, they sometimes fight over how to describe the water. It's worth resisting this impulse.
July 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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nerdjpg.com
Sorry boss I’m crying and throwing up because of the endless crimes against the masses. I will finish my project right away
June 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
No. It is not the job of ordinary citizens to show perfect message discipline.

It is the responsibility of actors with agenda-setting power — like, say, national newspapers — not to treat random-ass people exaggerating as a threat equivalent to the madman president.
Given the threat that Mr. Trump presents, we understand the urge to speak out in maximalist ways about almost everything he does. It can feel emotionally satisfying, and simply like the right thing to do, during dark times. But the stakes are too high to prioritize emotion over effectiveness. The best way to support American democracy is to build the largest possible coalition to defend it. It is to call out all Mr. Trump’s constitutional violations while diligently avoiding exaggeration about what qualifies as a violation. Liberals who conflate conservative policies with unconstitutional policies risk sending conservatives back into Mr. Trump’s camp.
May 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
ainulindale.bsky.social
Solidarity with public sector IT and security workers, cause this continues to be absolutely fucked.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
ainulindale.bsky.social
For posterity: web.archive.org/web/20230927...
April 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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wapotechguild.bsky.social
Join us in urging Washington Post management to voluntarily recognize the Washington Post Tech Guild and begin bargaining with us immediately! Sign our petition below.

bit.ly/wapo-action
Voluntarily recognize The Washington Post Tech Guild
The Washington Post is broken. We’re standing together as workers and forming the Washington Post Tech Guild to fix it. On April 7, a majority of over 300 technology workers at The Washington Post an...
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April 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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techworkerscoalition.org
Data Centers, Climate and Labor:
co-hosted with @datasociety.bsky.social #SFClimateWeek

Webinar
Chip Workers for Responsible Mining
Enabled Emissions Campaign
@mediajustice.bsky.social
@nycdsatech.bsky.social
@cleanvirginia.org

📆 April 18, 2025
⏰ 3pm PDT / 6pm PDT
Register: bit.ly/datacenters101
Introducing Data Centers, Climate and Labor: A webinar on intersecting perspectives with the panelists mentioned in the post on April 18, 3pm PT / 6pm ET. Register at https://bit.ly/datacenters101
March 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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iaconrockgirl.bsky.social
Post reading "computer boys are really like "imagine a boot so big that logically we must start licking it now incase it might possibly exists someday""
March 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
ainulindale.bsky.social
It’s a rough time to be alive, but @techworkerscoalition.org makes it a lil’ better.
February 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
ACT UP, 1990
A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ainulindale.bsky.social
A screen capture from Twin Peaks featuring David Lynch as Gordon Cole saying “And when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.”
January 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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cyberb.space
In 2020 my coworkers and I started talking to each other about how to fix what wasn’t working with our jobs and protect what we loved about them. Almost a year later, we lost a hard fought union campaign. I learned a lot in between.

My piece in Reboot this week: joinreboot.org/p/nearest-ne...
Nearest Neighbors
Solidarity, startups, and convenience
joinreboot.org
December 2, 2024 at 1:05 AM